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You all will be very pleased to hear that we're starting to send all the pages over to the Hiveworks Color Tech, bless their glorious, kind, hard working soul.

Y'all should go read Namesake, which is Isa's comic. Her inks are so dang good. I love them, they are the standards I am to achieve with my own stuff. Isa does.... a lot... for this comic and for Hiveworks in general on top of all her own full time projects, she's kinda great.

Yeah!! Celebrate the milestones, man, no matter what size they are!

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Shout out to my pal Qsy for helping me with the author's name! I needed the oldest, stuffiest sounding French name, but I know nothing of the language, and they really stepped in and helped me out. Thanks!

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I hate the one-page-per-week schedule and I'm eager to get back to the two page per week we're all used to.Â I'll at least be posting status update of the Book I cover in the meantime, so that'll be fun.Â

See you Thursday.

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It feels like it's been a lot longer than a couple of weeks, but I reached a point this past Sunday where it felt like I finally snapped awake, sat up, looked around, and became self aware for the first time in awhile. (Huge shout out to my husband for enabling my couch potato lifestyle while I played through the entirety of Uncharted 3 in just one day. How does he even deal with me. I was a smelly little gremlin at that point.)

So, as we get our respective 2019s started, I'd like to take a minute and try to break down my goals for myself in this new year, so that y'all know what to expect from me:

I'm going to be taking things slow. I've realized that I was living a life full of unhealthy habits last year, the worst of which was driving myself to work nonstop until I collapsed from burnout and had to sit around and do literally nothing for two full weeks before I started to feel like myself again. So in 2019, I'm going to try to be more transparent about how I'm doing, what I'm doing, and when I realistically need to take it easy.

Combining each of the two points above means that updates are going to stay at a one-page-per-week update schedule, and pages will have basic/flat colors or be in black and white until this production wraps up, or I feel well enough again to handle the additional workload of a second page every week on top of the boards I have to deliver for my dayjob.

I'm slightly frustrated with this development, but the Realistic Side of myself is putting it in place because I do not want to go through a repeat of what happened in 2018, and honestly, neither do you. I was miserable and pages were work instead of fun. That's not what we want.

I'm also softening the schedule because Print Prep remains unfinished, and I don't want to rush through things like I have been these last couple of months. And heaven help me, I really want to savor working on the cover. I want good memories and feelings associated with the production of the book whenever I look at it. My goal is to get to work on the back end of the Kickstarter by March, and have the book out and for you all to own before or around Christmas.

Right now I'm trying to play all of this by ear. It feels like I'm starting from scratch, which is more exciting than anything else, and I'm trying not to get too caught up in the anxiety of asking for more of your patience. The comic would not be here without you, but it also wouldn't be here without me either, which I lost sight of in 2018 in my effort not to disappoint you. 2019 is my year of finding balance.

Thank you all so very much for reading, and I look forward to moving forward with you into this new year!

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As evidence to all these crazy things, the page above was literally done in just one day because of other obligations demanding my time and attention. I'm pretty proud of being able to do so much work in such a short amount of time, but I really don't want to make a habit of it.

We're all pretty burned out and ready for a break, and eager to celebrate the holidays with our friends and loved ones. As such, new pages will return during the week of January 8th, 2019.

This Thursday, we'll update the site with another Corrections Preview for Chapter 7, and the following Tuesday will have some Christmas filler artwork, and after that, we are going to retreat into our festively decorated hidey holes to sleep and play video games and quietly stare at the walls, contemplating all the work we've done. The rest of the chapter is real good, but the ones after are even better, and honestly, those are the ones I really want to get to, because they propel the plot forward and do some worldbuilding instead of lingering on a 40-50 page joke (not that this isn't fun, either, but you know me and how eager I am to get to the next thing).

We'll see you Thursday! Good luck with your Holiday planning and decorating and shopping and cooking and every other tradition you follow during this holiday season. From all of us here on the DotL Team, Merry Christmas!

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(We're temporarily updating the Inks until the Colors are done. Thanks for your patience!)

Hey, have you been enjoying the prose accompanying these sequences? Do the words alone elicit visceral emotions and conjure images that not even these illustrations can capture fully? Does it sweep you away to a time and place full of magic and wonder, and do you wish that you could consume an entire story in this same style and tone?

Daedalus Books is a real place.The bookstore was originally named Blue Whale Books, also a real place, but Daedalus more directly inspired the interior design and feel of the shop, so it was changed at the last minute.

Shout out to Qsy for coming up with the stuffiest old French name possible.

Also, more shout outs to Yoko and Rosey for being patient with me, as they are the most patient and hardworking people in the world. You guys are great.

This is the first week of the new update schedule, which means I need to go against my every instinct and discard the next page I've been working on in favor of page corrections. I'll have something cool to show you on Thursday, hopefully.

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Despite everyone's best guesses, Lyra actually hates everything about it.Â (To clarify, Lyra is saying the shield would normally be unnecessary because pauldrons are usually just that: shields. It's redundant.)

Shout out to my husband Milo for helping, a lot, on this thing. And of course to Rosey and Yoko who are, obviously, incredibly hardworking and wonderful people. Thank you for being game for this.

I'll be posting a process GIF for this thing at some point. It's a fun thing to watch.

Fun Facts & Trivia:

The Robot at the desk is the Directory. Please state the title of the book you're looking for loudly and clearly. The pages in the Directory Book will open to where your title can be found, if it is available.

The Eyes above the door and the Flags are all watching you.

The Gargoyles are the Security Guards, and they will absolutely follow you to the ends of the earth to recover any stolen merchandise. Honestly, they may thank you for the excuse to go outside, but it will not lessen the severity of your punishment for stealing.

All Employees have attempted or accidentally shoplifted from the bookstore. The only long-term employee is the Cashier, but it is unclear if he owns the bookstore or if the bookstore owns him.

Do not make small talk with the Cashier. Do not ask the Cashier what he is, or for his name. Do not address the Cashier. The Cashier will address you.

The candles are the only source of light because absolutely no fire or exothermic magic is allowed in the bookstore, for obvious reasons.

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